. Choice emblems : natural, historical, fabulous, moral and divine, for the improvement and pastime of youth : ornamented with near fifty handsome allegorical engravings, designed on purpose for this work : with pleasing and familiar descriptions to each, in prose and verse, serving to display the beauties and morals of the ancient fabulists : the whole calculated to convey the golden lessons of instruction under a new and more delightful dress : written for the amusement of the right honorable Lord Newbattle . s drav/ on[to a conclufion, even while we are revelling inIthe fummer and the pride
. Choice emblems : natural, historical, fabulous, moral and divine, for the improvement and pastime of youth : ornamented with near fifty handsome allegorical engravings, designed on purpose for this work : with pleasing and familiar descriptions to each, in prose and verse, serving to display the beauties and morals of the ancient fabulists : the whole calculated to convey the golden lessons of instruction under a new and more delightful dress : written for the amusement of the right honorable Lord Newbattle . s drav/ on[to a conclufion, even while we are revelling inIthe fummer and the pride of life. \ Ihe Dial is a kind of fdcnt monitor,-wnijh, bv informing us how the hours fleetaway, feems to exhort us lo a proper ufebf them, and not to wafte thofe precious mo-Imcnts which an hour will come when we (hallthink of more worth than all the riches of theearth, and uhich then, all the riches of theearLh will not be-fuficient to purchaie for us. Every good and v/ife mail will at certainperiods examine his own adions, and fee whatufe he has made of pail time, and praife orcenfure hinifelf accordingly. A celebratedpoet fays * EvV/GhoHcf my departed hours, * Oi- fmiles an Aiigel, or a Fury frowns. Such ( 4S ) Such an examination will never fail to con-vince us that we cannot be too careful howwe fpend the prefent tirae ; fince to employ-that well will be the only means of our en-joying that fatisfaclion here, which will be tous a fort of earnelt of our future happinefs. E M B L H :vr ( 49 ). E M B L E M Human Grandeur. BEHOLD how facred majefty is tornV/ith racking pains, with care and an-guifn worn,vVhile the poor fhepherd-boy the time beguilesWith rural fports and unaffedled fmiles, Tis not in grandeur, peace of mind to give,.Nor live thofe happieft who in fplendor alone thofe bleffings can beftow,Which teach the mind with heart-felt joy to glow:Banifh wan care, and all herdifmal train,And give true pleafure, unallayd by pain. HAP- ( 50 ) H A P
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